"On painting and fighting looke aloofe. [On painting and fighting look aloof.]"
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"Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner."
"He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he repents himself of time."
"We have the same qualities as God, just like a drop of the ocean has the same qualities as the whole ocean. Everybody's looking for something and we are it. We don't have to look anywhere--it's right there within ourselves."
"I don't want to be like you. I look for the pure of heart, and the ones that have made a start."
"Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire."
"And if you should survive to 105 Look at all you'll derive out of being alive. Then here is the best part You have a head start If you are among the very young at heart."
"The more I look back on my life, the more I see miracles."
"I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look."
"Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst?"
"When I saw Tyson knocking everybody out on TV, I thought, He's goooood. But when I saw him in person, he didn't look as awesome."
"I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of it all, not death but life."
"...the word that seems best to summarize the desire of the human heart is 'communion.' ...wherever we look it is communion that we seek."
"One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army."
"She could not bear to look at him just now. If she did, she might well slap him again. Or cry. Or kiss him. And never know which was right and which was wrong and which was madness."
"A lot of fantasy names are too much. They’re too difficult to pronounce. I wanted the flavour of medieval England. I took actual names we still use today, like ‘Robert’, and in some case I tweaked them a little bit. I made ‘Edward’ into ‘Eddard’. If you look back at medieval times, no one knew how to spell their own names. There are a lot of variations that we’ve lost."
"I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships."
"You look pale, Sansa," Cersei observed. "Is your red flower still blooming?" "Yes" "How apt. The men will bleed out there, and you in here."
"You make us look bad', complained Toad. 'You looked bad before I ever met you', Jon told him."
"Even the sky was grey. Grey and grey and greyer. The whole world grey, everywhere you look, everything grey except the eyes of the bride. The eyes of the bride were brown. Big and brown and full of fear."